Undercover Facebook moderator was instructed not to remove fringe groups or hate speech - https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/17/17582152/facebook-channel-4-undercover-investigation-content-moderation
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@jotbe Good! While hate speech is ugly yu can just block it and walk away. That is not the place for a moderator to get involved.
@freemo while i am an advocate of free speech, moderation is sometimes required, not everything is okay to say. e.g. clear hate speech or death threats must not be ok. question is where are the boundaries and who should decide. in that particular example, only groups with a corresponding large audience (i.e. bringing lots of traffic to facebook) have not been moderated or punished. all the others were. this is entirely wrong imo. and: victims of hate speech often cannot easily just walk way.
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I disagree on the point that "hate speech" speech needs moderation. It is of course disgusting and if it is ever witnessed it should be shunned and no one should act like it's acceptable. But I don't think that means the appropriate solution is global moderation when each individual has the power to choose their own moderation.
@freemo i understand and agress up to a certain degree. also: every owner of a platform has rules of what is acceptable, company or private owner, e.g. hosting her own blog, and even legally responsible for published content. i like to compare it with my flat. if a guest is rude to other people, puts up posters with "i hate $anotherguest" and yells at that guest, i could either tell the affected guest to close her eyes, and give her ear plugs. or i ask the hater to stfu and leave my flat. 1/2
@jotbe I'm not sure the example is equivelant. If someone has to close their eyes and plug their ears it implies they are suffering from the incident. With a block there are no down sides, it would appear for all intents and purposes as if the person wasnt there, but otherwise the "victim" continues unaffected in every way.
While you certainly have the legal right to kick whoever you want from your instance I would argue that you'd be morally deficient for doing so if your only basis is that you dont like some words someone said. Though to be clear i see less of an issue with someone saying "leave my instance and use another" than i would with someone banning another user entirely regardless of what instance they are on.
